Tag: climate change
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Lifestyles of the species-rich and famous
Below is a guest post (her first!) by Dr Emily Darling, about one of the 17 chapters of her PhD dissertation: The ongoing loss of coral cover and flattening of reef architecture is leading to dramatic and drastic changes for coral reef ecosystems. But not all reef-building corals are affected in the same way. We…
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From climate change to social change
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFiTlfAkPgA&[/youtube] Friend of SeaMonster, Bruce Caron was trained as a social anthropologist and an urban cultural geographer. Through the New Media Studio and the New Media Research Institute, he is realizing the goal of bringing new tools and skills to the public to help democratize the technological advantages of the digital revolution.
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Ocean acidification in Google Earth tour
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAwZ7VCYn44[/youtube]
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Climate of doubt
Related to the Climate Silence of both of this years presidential candidates is a successful campaign to confuse the public about the reality of climate change. See a great documentary R movie on it that aired Tuesday night on PBS HBO: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMTVGBGs_40&[/youtube]
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Silence of the lambs
Iv’e been doing my best to avoid all coverage of – even mention of – the elections that are upon us. I made the mistake of tuning in to the second debate (online) and I watched in astonishment as both candidates talked for many minutes about coal, oil, energy and oil prices without ever mentioning…
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News flash: global warming continues (Nuccitelli et al. 2012)
from SkS: We are very pleased to report on a new paper in press at Physics Letters A (PLA) by the Skeptical Science team and oceanography expert John Church. In typical SkS international coordination style, the paper’s authors included an American (Dana Nuccitelli), a Canadian (Robert Way), a New Zealander (Rob Painting), and two Australians…
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The GBR is losing coral even faster than assumed
Elizabeth Selig and I took a lot of heat when we published a paper in 2007 (Bruno and Selig at PLoS One) in which we found the state of western Pacific reefs in general and the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in particular was much worse than assumed: The results of our analysis of 6001 quantitative…
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Sea level rise for the west coast of the US
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gstw44DeSI&[/youtube]
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What to do when the oceans rise
Last week I published my first book review at PLoS Biology with UNC undergraduate Lauren-Kristine Pryzant. We read and wrote about Tim McClanahan and Josh Cinner’s excellent new book, “Adapting to a Changing Environment: Confronting the Consequences of Climate Change“. We tried to bring the lessons in the book from Africa home by discussing climate…
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Five things I didn’t know about the ocean
My review of Professor Callum Roberts’ new book The Ocean of Life has just come out in Toronto’s Globe and Mail. This is the follow up to his first book An unnatural history of the sea (it was one of the Five Books I picked for the Browser) – it dives into the history of how we’ve stripped…